Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 vs AMD Radeon R7 M460

Comparative analysis of Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 and AMD Radeon R7 M460 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940

  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 10 nm vs 28 nm
  • Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3366 vs 2772
  • Around 21% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3366 vs 2772
Specifications (specs)
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3366 vs 2772
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3366 vs 2772

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 M460

  • 2.8x more core clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • Around 13% higher boost clock speed: 1125 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 13% higher texture fill rate: 27 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s
Core clock speed 1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
Boost clock speed 1125 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 27 GTexel / s vs 24.00 GB/s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R7 M460

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3366
2772
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3366
2772
Name Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 AMD Radeon R7 M460
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3366 2772
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3366 2772
PassMark - G3D Mark 1090
PassMark - G2D Mark 207
Geekbench - OpenCL 4999
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 19.679
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 358.673
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.572
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 30.024
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 85.168
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2294
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1767
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2294
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1767

Compare specifications (specs)

Intel Iris Plus Graphics 940 AMD Radeon R7 M460

Essentials

Architecture Generation 11.0 GCN 3.0
Code name Ice Lake GT2 Meso
Launch price (MSRP) $969
Place in performance rating 1217 1220
Type Laptop Laptop
Launch date 15 May 2016

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz 1125 MHz
Compute units 48
Core clock speed 400 MHz 1100 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 10 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 211 GFLOPS
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 1690 GFLOPS
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 845 GFLOPS
Pipelines 384 384
Texture fill rate 24.00 GB/s 27 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt
Floating-point performance 864.0 gflops
Transistor count 3,100 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x1 PCIe 3.0 x8

API support

DirectX 12.1 12.0 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz
Shared memory 0